My cached data is pulled from the imdb list files, it does not create an online database, is not a commercial application, it's not charging any fees, It does reference IMDB as the source of that data with links to there site.

MIP's cached data is in compliance with the imdb list file usage.

Quote:All data and software released by Internet Movie Database Ltd is
freely available to anyone within certain limitations. You are
encouraged to quote subsets of the database in USENET articles,
movie related FAQs, magazine articles etc. We do ask, however,
that you make reference to the source of the data and provide a
pointer to the database for the benefit of the reader.

MIP also does a standard http query and downloads the same full html page as any other browser, the difference is in how I display that data as I parse it into a different format again with reference to IMDB as the source of that data.

My cached data is pulled from the imdb list files, it does not create an online database, is not a commercial application, it's not charging any fees, It does reference IMDB as the source of that data with links to there site.

MIP's cached data is in compliance with the imdb list file usage.

Quote:All data and software released by Internet Movie Database Ltd is
freely available to anyone within certain limitations. You are
encouraged to quote subsets of the database in USENET articles,
movie related FAQs, magazine articles etc. We do ask, however,
that you make reference to the source of the data and provide a
pointer to the database for the benefit of the reader.

MIP also does a standard http query and downloads the same full html page as any other browser, the difference is in how I display that data as I parse it into a different format again with reference to IMDB as the source of that data.

Thanks for the heads up on the license issues. Team XBMC will contact IMDb directly and ask for their approval if they are willing to give it.

For the meantime, take the opportunity to contribute to an open database such as themoviedb. If each of us take the time (an hour or so ain't that much) to contribute 10 movies from our collections (obviously NOT just resubmitting IMDb data!) then their collection will swell extremely quickly.

After all, look at how awesome thetvdb is now, thanks to user contributions from people like you and me.

fekker Wrote:My cached data is pulled from the imdb list files, it does not create an online database, is not a commercial application, it's not charging any fees, It does reference IMDB as the source of that data with links to there site.

MIP's cached data is in compliance with the imdb list file usage.

MIP also does a standard http query and downloads the same full html page as any other browser, the difference is in how I display that data as I parse it into a different format again with reference to IMDB as the source of that data.

I'm going to agree with this. I'm essentially just using XBMC to access imdb.com instead of FireFox or Internet Explorer.

As I said in the other thread, Team XBMC has contacted IMDb and will leave the IMDb scraper disabled until we hear from them. Note that we were not contacted from IMDb, but are simply responding to a users' request.

It is unclear to the team as to whether we're doing anything wrong or not, so given that, the wisest action is to cease distributing the scraper until we are certain that we are doing things correctly.

In the meantime, please spend some time contributing data to themoviedb so that it's available to others. If we all spend an hour or two submitting data (not just copy + pasted from IMDb, ofcourse!) on some of our own movies, it will benefit the entire community.

not saying hoorah or anything for this latest development (although it is reversable if need be), but this may lead to some speed improvements if we end up with a setup that periodically keeps a local cached copy of imdb and periodically updates it (http://www.imdb.com/interfaces).